To say crossing the street was brave is stretching the meaning of brave considerably.

Symbol: Dmel\per / Species: D. melanogaster / Name: period

I'm Al and this chow hound is my son, Jason.

Almost as bad was the status of the wind data: of his six meteorographs, only one (Hergesell 104) had a working anemometer, and that instrument lasted only five flights in summer 1907 before it was lost when a cable parted; it functioned principally to help him calibrate his procedure for estimating wind velocity aloft without an anemograph.